Mixing Techniques: How to Play Rockabilly Double Bass

Video Transcript

" Hi! Ken Steiner for expertvillage.com. Now that we’ve gone through a single slap, the double slap and several triple slap techniques, we’ve talk a little about what it really means when you’re playing with a band or whatever in using slap techniques. What you end up doing is you mix up the techniques quiet a bit which gets a little getting used to and you have to start by getting comfortable with each of them before you can start mixing them up because it involves mixing your timing, picking up the slaps where the notes are and so forth. But in general what you’ll find very common is say a boogie woogie line using a double slap and every so often a triple slap is thrown in, let’s take a look at that it’s something like this…….. One of the things about mixing up the techniques in my opinion is that’s often with distinguish the really good slap bass players, the ability to throw in the figures in unexpected times and also to be able to play tastefully, you often get some when you start playing you start playing the triple slap and they’re so cool that you just want to play them all the time but I can assure you that your band mates are not going to be that appreciative if you keep playing triple slaps over all their singing and so forth. So you want to put those in where you think it adds arithmetic pulse and like I said I think not just technique wise but musician wise that’s what really distinguishes the really good slap bass players is their ability to know when to use the techniques, don’t over use it or you’ll just become very tasteless."